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The financial cost to business productivity in the U. alone is estimated at .9 Billion annually ; but the human toll, particularly among our youth and in our families, is far greater. Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society.

Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities.

Do not yield yourselves to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life, and your bodily parts to God as instruments of righteousness.

For sin will have no dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. He created them, he bought them, he owns them, he indwells them, and what we do with them demonstrates to the world who our Lord is.

Note: at the end of this article there are links to three infographics that cover various aspects of the impact of pornography on families.

First of all, I am not including homosexual desires.

Until I have a chance to preach on homosexuality I’ll just say three things about it: When I ask the question, why God created sexual desire, I have in mind that normal craving for sexual stimulation and intimacy that begins with early adolescence and continues, for some it seems, indefinitely, but for many mellows out into a less visceral craving but nevertheless real desire for personal and bodily intimacy.

If I were to stop here with this general admonition, our consciences would give us some guidance in specific cases, say, of whether we should smoke, or drink, or use drugs, or overeat, or never exercise, or get too little sleep, or engage in sexual relations outside marriage, or masturbate, or wear enticing clothing, or other things that misuse or abuse the body.

But what our consciences approve and disapprove of is not always an accurate guide to what God approves of.